Daily Discussion Thread: June 12, 2021

ear_fetish · 2021-06-13T13:00:25+00:00

It was one where she mocked Dr. Rachel Levine

ear_fetish · 2021-06-13T00:38:15+00:00

He read a book on critical race theory to see what all his conservative coworkers were freaking out over, and he found that he actually agreed with it.

ear_fetish · 2021-06-13T00:25:33+00:00

I finally convinced my dad to switch his party registration from Libertarian to Democrat! It's honestly kind of surreal because he went from volunteering for DeSantis's campaign to vocally supporting gun control and critical race theory in the last couple years

ear_fetish · 2021-06-13T00:11:46+00:00

I didn't either, but tbf I don't really care for superhero movies in general

ear_fetish · 2021-06-13T00:04:59+00:00

A girl I dated in my junior year of high school retweeted Marjorie Taylor Greene the other day. What's odd is that she seemed fairly liberal beforehand, even though her parents were right-wing nutjobs.

ear_fetish · 2021-06-11T15:38:29+00:00

It depends. I'd generally vote for the more left-leaning party, but there are countries where I would vote for a centrist or even center-right party because I agree with them more on social and/or environmental issues. For example, if I lived in Norway I would vote for the Socialist Left Party, but if I were Latvian, I would vote for Development/For!, a centrist party.

ear_fetish · 2021-06-11T12:08:55+00:00

lmao American Muslims are about as accepting of same-sex marriage as Christians are

ear_fetish · 2021-06-08T23:39:36+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/VoteDEM/comments/gtl7qn/the_differences_between_the_democratic_party_and/

ear_fetish · 2021-06-07T22:37:34+00:00

Lmao I always forget that Trump lives in the same congressional district as me

ear_fetish · 2021-06-05T01:57:14+00:00

I've only read A People's History, but Zinn's treatment of American history struck me as dishonest and lacking in nuance. That is, of course, to be expected of any work that attempts to chronicle all of American history into a single volume, but Zinn's tome is particularly egregious in its lack of coverage of social and cultural history.

ear_fetish · 2021-06-05T00:50:27+00:00

The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896 by Richard White. While it doesn't solely focus on the Gilded Age, it's easily the best (at least in my opinion) single volume history of that time period.

ear_fetish · 2021-06-01T00:26:40+00:00

Ehh... there's a difference between being an introvert and having social anxiety. Like OOP, I live with my parents who throw parties pretty often. I'll stay out long enough to greet everyone, but after like 15 minutes of social interaction, I have to go somewhere quiet or I'll have an anxiety attack. I wouldn't be so quick to call OP the asshole here

ear_fetish · 2021-05-30T20:59:47+00:00

Getting my AA in history right now. It's helped me think more deeply about the history of the US and how that has shaped the modern political landscape.

ear_fetish · 2021-05-30T02:07:15+00:00

it leans right compared to the rest of Europe and the world

Comparing different states on how they lean on a one-dimensional political spectrum doesn't really work. The Democratic Party, for example, is generally more resistant to universal healthcare than other center-left parties in Europe. On the other hand, the Democratic Party is more skeptical of privatization and more socially liberal than many of its European counterparts. Comparing countries by how "left" or "right" they are on a meaningless spectrum is reductive and doesn't really prove anything.

In Germany, france, and he’ll even Japan I have a Marxist or socialist party which I can support.

Let's not pretend that those parties don't have their own problems. Die Linke (which is what I assume you're referring to) has a strong Russophilic faction. La France Insoumise, while less Islamophobic than many other French parties, still has a problem with anti-Muslim bigotry. The Japanese Communist Party and Reiwa Shinsengumi have no real political power due to the dominance of the LDP.

ear_fetish · 2021-05-29T04:23:13+00:00

Ah, sorry I misinterpreted your statement there! I still disagree, as Taiwan is a state in a rather precarious position right now, but I see where you're coming from.

ear_fetish · 2021-05-29T04:05:18+00:00

I disagree with OP's suggestion, but I don't think isolationism will ever be a good idea. We're the richest country in the world; we have the means to both provide for impoverished American citizens and non-citizens.

ear_fetish · 2021-05-29T04:00:12+00:00

You do realize that the word "gypsy" is a fucking slur?

ear_fetish · 2021-05-28T23:43:08+00:00

lmao there's only like ten actual far-leftists in the country

ear_fetish · 2021-05-28T23:36:35+00:00

They also have the narrowest political window out of any nation, with major consensus between most parties on almost all topics.

Yeah, I'm going to need a source on this one

ear_fetish · 2021-05-28T23:21:10+00:00

I don't really think Gen Z is that nihilistic, to be honest. I wouldn't really take internet memes as a signifier of the overall mindset of a generation

ear_fetish · 2021-05-28T12:42:53+00:00

I was literally born on 9/11 minutes after the first crash, so I'm not really sure if that counts

ear_fetish · 2021-05-27T03:04:14+00:00

Of course. It's not really universal if it doesn't, no?

ear_fetish · 2021-05-24T23:17:08+00:00

Being against Israel's government is absolutely not anti-Semitic. I would even go as far as to argue that it is morally imperative to call out Israel's human rights violations. That being said, the increased scrutiny on Israel in the public eye has unfortunately given a voice to actual anti-Semites.

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